You can read all 12 ridiculous pages of immature retaliation at Encinitas Undercover.

http://encinitasundercover.blogspot.com/

You want more? Go to:

http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/batra/article_7cff4baf-9475-5af7-a57f-9ee3d6361274.html

As for the inference that Bill Arballo being a columnist here would have anything to do with how the news is reported is false and insulting.

We are willing to stand behind what we put out and we even put our names on it. Can you say the same?

Laurie Sutton
Managing Editor

1) The “technicality” referred to the headline is the fact that Teresa Barth did not understand that she was NOT an employee.

This perhaps is because she worked ‘technically’ for the State of California as part of the 22nd Agricultural District.

2) Veteran employees of the Del Mar Fair will tell you that she has a long history of this kind of retaliatory behavior. Because it is a ‘personnel’ matter, the reporters who contacted the Fair were not allowed access to her file.

Portraying Chicken Little alone is not a leadership skill.

Did you guys even read the legal report?

Simply put, Teresa Barth is not in any kind of employment relationship with Stocks and Dalager, or any other council member.  They are elected officials, who in accordance with US Supreme Court precedence are allowed to and should expect that other politician may at time say really rough nasty things about each other.  It’s how our Founding Father’s set our system up.  Maybe if you or Teresa ever read the Federalist Paper’s, you’d know this.  Even a high school student learns this in civics class.

It is very clear that Teresa was the child here by retaliating for her own failing to garner the 3 votes she needed to move into the Deputy Mayor’s position.  And to top it off, you saying that Maggie didn’t want the position because she said so is another failing  or just bias to recognize another simple fact that by Parliamentary Procedure, all she had to do was to decline the nomination.  Instead, Teresa couldn’t even get the vote of Maggie when push came to shove.

So let’s see, Teresa ran on and still claims to be the transparent government candidate, yet starts an sealed internal investigation at taxpayers expense.  Now that’s truly a say one thing, do something different politician for you.  

In the end, Teresa filed a baseless claim, costing the citizens of Encinitas over $15,000 in these difficult economic times.  Just think what we could have done with this money to improve out parks, youth programs or pave some potholes in our streets.

Teresa is clearly not cut out for working in our democratic system, needs to apologize to the citizens of Encinitas and to those she has baseless accused.  Finally, she should reimburse the taxpayers $15,000 for the cost of this retaliatory investigation and do us all a favor by not running for re-election.

P.S.  You also didn’t disclose the fact that Teresa’s father works for your paper.

By the way, Encinitas has NO Mayoral rotation and never has, so any sense of entitlement she has is not reality based. Read the City Municipal code.
It only references “get a majority of the vote”.

And finally, dear old Maggie Houlihan could have, under Roberts Rules of Order, declined the nomination. She didn’t, nor has she resigned the post hence which she could do… Me thinks she speaks with a forked tongue!